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Otomar Krejca, 87 (1921 - 2009)
PRAGUE -- Otomar Krejca, a renowned theater director in the Czech Republic, has died at the age of 87. Prague's National Theater says Krejca died Friday in Prague. The cause of death was not given. Krejca was born on Nov. 23, 1921 in Skrysov u Pelhrimova, Czechoslovakia. He joined the National Theater as an actor in 1956 and later became a director. In the 1965, he co-founded the...
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John Kenley (1906 - 2009)
CLEVELAND (AP) -- John Kenley, a theater producer who ran a legendary summer stock circuit in Ohio beginning in the 1950s that attracted numerous Broadway and Hollywood stars, died Oct. 23. He was 103. Kenley died at the Cleveland Clinic from complications of pneumonia, said Anita Dloniak, a friend and press agent. Kenley produced hundreds of plays and musicals. His Kenley Players, a...
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Zakes Mokae, 75 (1934 - 2009)
By KEN RITTER, Associated Press Writer LAS VEGAS -- Zakes Mokae, the Tony-winning South African actor best known for his work with playwright Athol Fugard in such apartheid dramas as "The Blood Knot" and "Master Harold ... and the boys," has died at the age of 75. Mokae died Friday at home after suffering a stroke in May, the actor's wife, Madelyn, said Tuesday. She said Mokae also...
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Peter Zadek, 83 (1926 - 2009)
HAMBURG — German stage director Peter Zadek, known for his provocative and unconventional renditions, died overnight in Hamburg after a serious illness, the theater where he was working said Thursday. He was 83. "We mourn for a friend and one of the great directors of German theater," said Ulrich Waller, head of Hamburg's St. Pauli Theater. Zadek was considered among the top German...
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Merce Cunningham, 90 (1919 - 2009)
By POLLY ANDERSON, Associated Press Writer NEW YORK — Merce Cunningham, the avant-garde dancer and choreographer who revolutionized modern dance by creating works of pure movement divorced from storytelling and even from their musical accompaniment, has died at age 90, a spokeswoman said Monday. Cunningham died on Sunday at his Manhattan home of natural causes, said Leah Sandals,...
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Pina Bausch, 68 (1940 - 2009)
BERLIN -- Pina Bausch, a German choreographer known for her pioneering work, died Tuesday. She was 68. The Wuppertal Dance Theater in western Germany, where she had served as director,...
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Hanne Hiob, 86 (1923 - 2009)
(AP) German actress Hanne Hiob dies at 86 BERLIN German actress Hanne Hiob, a daughter of playwright Bertolt Brecht, has died, officials said Wednesday. She was 86. Hiob, the daughter of...
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Donny La Rue, 81 (1927 - 2009)
By JILL LAWLESS, Associated Press Writer LONDON -- Danny La Rue, a popular female impersonator who was the first man to take the lead role in a major production of "Hello Dolly," has died. He...
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Evgenios Spatharis, 85 (1924 - 2009)
ATHENS, Greece - Evgenios Spatharis, a Greek master of shadow puppet theater, has died days after sustaining injuries in a fall, a state news agency reported Sunday. He was 85. Spatharis died...
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Augusto Boal, 78 (1931 - 2009)
RIO DE JANEIRO - Augusto Boal, the Brazilian theater director and playwright known for the interactive genre called the "Theater of the Oppressed," died Saturday. He was 78. Boal died of...
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Ekaterina Maximova, 70 (1939 - 2009)
MOSCOW (AP) - Legendary Russian ballerina Ekaterina Maximova, who graced the stage of the Bolshoi Theater for 30 years, died unexpectedly Tuesday at age 70. The theater said Maximova died at...
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Marilyn Cooper, 74 (1934 - 2009)
NEW YORK - Marilyn Cooper, a Broadway character actress best known for her Tony-winning performance in the musical "Woman of the Year," died Wednesday. She was 74. Cooper died after a long...
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Tharon Musser, 84 (1925 - 2009)
NEW YORK - Tharon Musser, a Tony-winning lighting designer of more than 100 Broadway shows, including such legendary musicals as "A Chorus Line," "Dreamgirls," "Mame" and "42nd Street," has...
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Peter Dennis, 75 (1933 - 2009)
LOS ANGELES - British actor Peter Dennis, whose one-man show of readings from A.A. Milne's "Winnie-the-Pooh" books took him from the Hollywood Bowl to Westminster Palace in London, has died. He...
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Alberto Zoppe (2009)
GREENBRIER, Ark. - Alberto Zoppe, whose somersaults from one horse to another helped him earn a place in the circus world's "Ring of Fame," died March 5. He was 87. Zoppe died in Greenbrier...
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Horton Foote, 92 (1916 - 2009)
By MICHAEL KUCHWARA, AP Drama Writer NEW YORK -- Playwright and screenwriter Horton Foote, who movingly portrayed the broken dreams of common people in "The Trip to Bountiful," "Tender Mercies...
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Sydney Chaplin, 82 (1926 - 2009)
LOS ANGELES - Sydney Chaplin, Charlie Chaplin's son and himself a Tony-winning actor who starred on Broadway opposite Judy Holliday in "Bells Are Ringing" and Barbra Streisand in "Funny Girl,"...
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Hugh Leonard (1926 - 2009)
DUBLIN - Irish playwright and commentator Hugh Leonard, who won a Tony Award in 1978 for his bittersweet father-and-son drama "Da," died Thursday. He was 82 and had been hospitalized for more than...
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Carolyn George d'Amboise (2009)
NEW YORK - Carolyn George d'Amboise, a photographer and former ballet and Broadway dancer married to New York City Ballet star Jacques d'Amboise, has died. She was 81. D'Amboise died Tuesday at...
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Robert Anderson, 91 (1917 - 2009)
NEW YORK - Playwright Robert Anderson, author of such Broadway hits as "Tea and Sympathy" and "You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running," has died at age 91. His stepdaughter, Mary...
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Tom O'Horgan, 82 (1926 - 2009)
NEW YORK — Tom O'Horgan, a leader in New York's experimental theater scene in the 1960s who went on to direct the exuberant, often freewheeling Broadway productions of "Hair" and "Jesus Christ...
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Harold Pinter, 78 (1930 - 2008)
LONDON -- Harold Pinter, praised as the most influential British playwright of his generation and a longtime voice of political protest, has died after a long battle with cancer. He was 78. ...
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Olga Lepeshinskaya (2008)
Moscow - Olga Lepeshinskaya, the Bolshoi Ballet's prima ballerina for three decades during the Soviet times, has died, Russia's Culture Ministry said. She was 92. Culture Ministry spokeswoman...
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Syed Alwi Syed Hassan (2008)
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Pioneering playwright Syed Alwi Syed Hassan, who won Malaysia's highest cultural accolade for writing seminal plays that shaped his country's theater scene after...
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Patricia Marand, 74 (1934 - 2008)
Actress Patricia Marand, who played Lois Lane in the Broadway musical "It's a Bird ... It's a Plane ... It's Superman,"' has died. She was 74. Family spokeswoman Maryellen Lee says Marand died...
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William Gibson, 94 (1914 - 2008)
NEW YORK - Playwright William Gibson, whose "The Miracle Worker" has thrilled audiences for nearly a half-century with the true story of the deaf-blind Helen Keller's rescue from a world of...
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Gerald P. Arpino, 85 (1923 - 2008)
CHICAGO -- Gerald Arpino, who co-founded the Joffrey Ballet and oversaw its move from New York to Chicago, has died. He was 85. Ballet spokeswoman Beth Silverman says Arpino died Wednesday...
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Milton Katselas, 74 (1933 - 2008)
LOS ANGELES -- Milton Katselas, a Broadway director and acting teacher whose students included George Clooney, Gene Hackman, Michelle Pfeiffer and many other stars, has died. He was 75. ...
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Edie Adams, 81 (1927 - 2008)
LOS ANGELES -- Actress and singer Edie Adams, the blonde beauty who won a Tony Award for bringing Daisy Mae to life on Broadway and who played the television foil to her husband, comedian Ernie...
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Stan Kann (2008)
ST. LOUIS - Stan Kann, a theater organist whose vacuum cleaner collection and gadget obsession made him a regular on the "Tonight Show," died Monday. He was 83. Kann died at a hospital from...
